Frederick Kaufman, Author . Harcourt $23 (205p) ISBN 978-0-15-101194-0
Kaufman, an English professor at New York’s City University, pursues a hip, journalistic approach to America’s all-consuming relationship to the gut, from Puritan rituals of fasting to the creation of the Food Network. Kaufman maintains...
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Frederick Kaufman, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $15.95 (253p) ISBN 978-0-15-132710-2
Anis Ladron, a somewhat less than reputable Spanish teacher at Battalion Academy, persuades the parents of four teenage Californians to subscribe to a ""study tour'' in Spain for their offspring. Highlights of this jaunt will supposedly include two...
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Frederick Kaufman. Wiley, $25.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-470-63192-8
In this energetic, wide-ranging work of investigative journalism, Harper’s editor Kaufman argues that the new food revolution involves collateral products and processes, not food itself. He discusses Big Food through specific products and goes far...
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Frederick Kaufman. Other Press, $27.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-59051-718-5
CUNY English professor Kaufman (Bet the Farm) examines human beings’ relationship to money in this fascinating yet somewhat muddled chronicle. His survey ranges from a 65,000-year-old Kenyan bead used to avert evil and bolster good fortune to a...
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